Washington U social life

Fooby
Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:27:51 +0000

There is a very available nightlife here if you know where to look. You can expect to find parties on nearly all weekends (finals week is the main exception here) and maybe one good party during the school week. Not finding a party will happen sometimes, especially as a freshman who doesn’t know any upperclassmen, which can be frustrating. Wash U is a wet campus though, so even if you can’t find a party you can still drink in your room/suite with friends provided you leave your door open. Once you’re an upperclassman, you can register parties in your suite.
Some people are, but the vast majority are not. Majors in science, math, and engineering tend to attract most of the more studious, and by extension, less party-oriented people. A good number of people here are very physically active, but not at all the majority.
As a sophomore, I believe it depends on the dorm you’re in. I was in a traditional, and not having suites + sharing a common bathroom made people much closer. I knew all 45 people on my floor last year, whereas I’ve heard some people in the moderns (usually 2-3 doubles connected by a bathroom) don’t have that experience. My floor was tremendously social, and so was most of my dorm, but beyond that I don’t really know.
Depends on your specific field, I think. Biomedical engineering here is very intense from what I understand from my friends in the major, but they still know how to have a good time. I think you’ll find the highest proportion of non-drinkers in that sort of major, but I’m inclined to believe it’s the personality types that are drawn towards more intensive majors, not vice-versa. As at any good school, expect to put off partying sometimes for tests, homework and the like, regardless of your major.
Practically everyone here is very friendly to strangers; other than that, the student body defies stereotype. There are partiers, sub-free students and everywhere in between.